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PREFACE. 

The author of this new dictionary hopes that the fact 
ttjat it is very incomplete, and that several words are 
misspelled and others awkwardly arranged, will not be 
overlooked. 

If any person can aid in making future editions any 
"more so," they will confer a favor by sending sugges- 
tions, 2-nd all blunders and errors of every sort will be 
carefully repeated, and their number increased in future 
editions. 

All drinking men are sure to approve and appreciate 
the work, for it contains a good deal about origin — 
(o-rye-gin); and some of the pages are believed to fitly 
represent the condition of liquor-drinkers during the 
prevalence of their bad spells. 

Every drinker nose the within facts, and they are 
ttrged to drink in the lessons set forth. 

THE AUTHOR, 



CONTENTS. 



Ail, 


1 


Nip, 


Bar, 


2 


0, oh, 


Bead, 


3 


Old Tom, 


Bender, 


4 


Paunch Bowl, 


Bier, 


5 


Pro high-bit-on, 


Bite ers, 


6 


Quarrel-some, 


Brand-y, 


7 


Rectiner, 


B rue- wry, 


$ 


Rum, 


Bump-er, 


9 


Sample room, 


C-arouse, 


10 


Say -loon. 


Grew -sad-ers, 


11 


Screen, 


D cant- err, 


12 


Shame pain, 


Demi-John, 


13 


Sigh-der, 


Die-still, 


14 


Sling. 


Dissipation, 


15 


S- pi rates, 


Ehriety, 


16 


Stick, 


Evil, 


17 


Still, 


Flip, 


18 


Swear ing, 


Gin. 


19 


Tap room, 


G rogue ery, 


20 


Tear, 


Half and half, 


21 


T-total-err, 


In-high hit, 


22 


Tight, 


In-temper-ance, 


23 


Tip- sigh, - 


In-toxicated, 


24 


Toper, 


Jug. 


25 


Unsteady, 


Killed, 


26 


Vice, 


Lager, 


27 


Vile, 


Lie-cents, 


28 


Whis key, 


Lick-her, 


29 


Wine, 


Malt, 


30 


Xtra dry, 


Main law, 


31 


Yeast, 


Maudlin, 


32 


Zany, 



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Been Aleing Some Time. 

Ail. 

One of the beverages made from malt, is with remarkable fitness 
called ale. The word is derived from aelan, to kindle or inflame, 
and the use of the liquor will inflame all the evil passions that 
exist in those who use it. 

It is undoubtedly true that a large share of all the ails and "ills 
that human flesh is heir to," are in some way connected with, or 
derived from the use of ale and other kindred beverages. If a 
man is sick, or peevish, or habitually untidy, indisposed or 
unfortunate, we often say, "what ails him?" and often his only 
ailment is a fondness for ale. 

Ale has much to do with many evils. It makes a man's breath 
stale, causes him to Rail, often makes him Fail, prevents his 
getting Bail, keeps him at the Tail end of the procession, and 
causes many a Wail; and the man who drinks it, is likely to be 
lodged in a place the name of which is spelled the same as ail, 
with a J added at the front end. Ails Sold Here would be an 
honest sign for a saloon keeper. 

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsi- 
ness shall clothe a man in rags. Pro. 23: 21. 



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"Members op the Bar," 

Bar. 

A Bar is a place that runs counter to every good and right 
influence. Bars in harbors are dangerous and are removed at 
public cost. 

Liquor bars are dangerous to our home harbors, and should also 
be removed. Hold them up before the Bar of Public Opinion, 
plead against them at the Bar of Grod, They are relics of Bar- 
bar-ism, and unworthy of the age. 

To bar is to hinder, and liquor drinking ninders the progress 
of art and science and industry. It has destroyed many of the 
foremost men in all avocations. 

A liquor bar is a bar or barrier against good society, against 
personal comfort, and against home, mother, father, sister, brother, 
children and friends. All these are barred out of their rights, and 
debarred from natural privileges, by those who patronize the Bar, 
and these last often end their days "behind the Bars." 



THE DRLXKER S DICTIONARY. 




"Drawing a Bead"— Sure to Kill. 

Bead. 

A bead, as Webster shows, means a prayer, and beads were 
doubtless originally used to mark the number of prayers a person 
offered, and thus obtained their name. 

The bead on a glass of liquor is so called because the bubbles 
are shaped like a bead. 

The test of good liquor is its bead, and a glass of liquor having 
a bead has therefore a prayer accompanying it ; and what a 
prayer! — a prayer that men may become brutes — that women 
may be robbed of comfort and purity, and that children may 
suffer from cold, and for want of care. 

When used in this connection the word should be spelled 
preyer instead of prayer. Like a beast of prey full of hunger 
and fierceness an appetite for liquor will range everywhere, and 
kill and mangle without pity, and regardless of results. Who 
or what shall bind it? 



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'On a Bender." 
Bender. 

"On a bender" is a peculiarly expressive phrase. To bend 
anything is to strain it, to turn it out of its course, to cause it to 
yield. 

Many a man's conscience and sense of honor and propriety 
have been strained, and the man himself turned out of his course 
because he was " on a bender." 

When a man is in such a condition everybody understands that 
both his reputation and character are bending under the load of 
obliquy that is certain to overtake him ; that the bent of his life 
is towards evil ; that his mother's heart, and perhaps a wife's, is 
not only bent but breaking with anxiety and sorrow, and that 
eventually the result will be a fearful Bend— a bad end. 



Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging ; and whosoever i& 
deceived thereby is not wise. Pro v. 20: 1. 



THE DBINKEKS DICTIONARY. 




"One More Bier." 
Bier. 

In the manufacture of beer from barley or other grains, the 
liquor is brewed or boiled, and for this reason a representation of 
a Bear, or, as the animal is also called a Bruin, was once used 
to suggest the kind of liquor sold. 

There was something of fitness in such a sign, for Bruin is a 
mischievous animal, and that the Brewing suggested by such a 
sign is mischievous, is well-known. It is a fact, that neither 
Bear or Beer is safe unless under restraint or dead. 

The German way of spelling the word bier, is suggestive of the 
final and inevitably hastened end of those who drink the product 
of malt. 

An old proverb well says : 

" He took his beer 
From year to year 
Until his bier took him." 

In the case of beer drinkers ; everybody has noticed that many 

of them do not have to wait until they are dead before they are 

carried; a policeman, a dray, or the "Black Maria" frequently 

performs this service while they are living; stili even then they 

are called Dead Drunks. 



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"A Snake in the Grass." 

Bite-ers. 

The name bitters is easily and appropriately transformed into 
bite-ers. It is said of one kind of liquor that it "biteth like a 
serpent, and stingeth like an adder. " 

A drink of bitters is so styled because bitter herbs are sometimes 
added to the spirits. 

Bitters : Yes, the name is appropriate ; it introduces an element 
of bitterness into both body and soul. It will cause many " roots 
of bitterness " to "spring up and defile" a man who otherwise 
would approximate purity. 

The use of "bitters" has caused many "bitter regrets," and 
" bitter reproaches." 

An experience is said to be "bitter " when it is sad, distressing, 
pitiable. The "bitter lot" of a drunkard's family, the "bitter 
cup," of which they are compelled to drink the dregs, the "bit- 
ter cold" and "bitter hunger" that they often endure, are a 
portion of the "bitters," that they are forced to drink. 



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A Nose gay. 

Brand-y. 

This liquor was once distilled chiefly from wine, but most of 
it is now manufactured with the aid of logwood, creosote and 
fusel oil. 

The name brandy is an eminently proper one. The liquor is 
not only a brand of itself, but it will put a brand on all who use it. 

The nose of every brandy-drinker affords ocular evidence of 
the kind of liquor he prefers, and whether fond of flowers or 
not he usually carries a red nosegay. 

To brand is to mark, and a brandy-drinker is usually so effect- 
ually marked, as to become a subject of remark. The drover 
brands his cattle, and the saloon-keeper brands his customers. 

To brand is to burn, and who can enumerate the number of 
persons whose souls and bodies have been branded and burned 
by intoxicating liquors. 

Some have been and others can be saved. 

Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire t Zach. 3:2. 



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"Trouble Brewing." 

B-rue-e-wry. 

To brew is to boil, to seethe, to foment. There is abundant 
evidence that the use of beer foments trouble, and when beer is 
being brewed it is literally true that "there is trouble brewing." 

It would be fitting to spell the word rue ery, for sooner or 
later all who make or use it will rue and lament the conse- 
quences that are sure to overtake them. 

The last part of the word brew-e-wry is equally suggestive. 
The moral nature of all who buy or sell the product of a brewery 
is sure to be so wry, awry, one sided, twisted and distorted, that 
they fail to realize the evil results that are inevitably connected 
with the traffic in beer. 



Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that putteth thy bottle 
to him, and makest him drunken also. Hab. 2 : 15. 



THE DRINKERS DICTIONARY. 




"A Bumper." 

Bump-er. 

In olden days it was customary after dinner with a full glass 
of wine, to drink the health of the Pope under the name of 
Bon- per e (good father). After a time the words Bon-pere were 
anglicized into bumper, and came to mean the cup itself. 

If a cup is filled with liquor to the brim, or until it runs over, 
it is said to be a bumper. In other words, if a glass or a man is 
full of liquor, either may be described as a bumper. 
k A bump is a swelling, a protuberance, or a heavy blow, and a 
man who has had a bumper of liquor, is liable to have a heavy 
blow also; his head is pretty sure to feel like one large bump, 
and when in liquor he acts like an awkward bumpkin, and lies 
down in sin, to awake in shame and sorrow. 

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning \ that they may 
follow strong drink; that continue until nighi till wine inflame 
them. Isa. 5: 11. 



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Arousing a Carouser. 

C-arouse. 

It would be well if " C," and "A," and "B," would arouse 
from their carouse, shake off their chains and begin a better life. 
The word carouse is derived from the Gaelic word craos, a wide 
mouth, and its significance is apparent. 

To carouse is to drink deeply with a wide open mouth, and if 
one drinks deeply he is sure to drink the dregs of sorrow. 

C stands for comrades. Comrades, arouse — again be men. 
Fight for your manhood once more. 

C also stands for Christian. 

O, Christian, arouse, < 

Be watchful and pray, 
The end draweth near. 
To-day is God's day. 

"The Lord is our strength," 
And this is our song: 
' ' Pati en t end urance ' ' 
Will conquer ere long. 

Have faith and fear not— 
Have faith in our Head; 
Our cause is most hoy, 
And God is not dead. 



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A Cross-aider. 

Crew-sad-ers. 

The word crusaders is derived from the Latin word crux, 
" cross " and " aid " — cross-aiders. 

The crusaders sought to serve Christ and rescue the Holy land 
from the Saracens. Their later namesakes seek to rescue the holy 
land of home by redeeming it from the iniquity of drink. 

A "crew " is a company of people, and "great is the company 
of women," that have " published " their desire and purpose to 
abolish the sale and the use of intoxicating beverages. Their zeal 
and devotion are as great as that of the original crusaders, and in 
this new campaign, as discretion and foresight are added to faith, 
victory is certain. 

The initials of the organization, W. C. T. U., are in themselves 
suggestive. ' ' We 11 c to you , " is their challenge to the ■ 'enemy. " 

There are many "sad" ones in the company, made so by the 
intemperance of fathers, husbands, sons and brothers, and a 
realization of the dreadful evils they contend against gives earn- 
estness to their efforts. 



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THE DKLNKERS DICTIONARY. 




A. Stopper Wanted. 



D-Cant-err. 

To decant is to pour from one vessel into another; and it is this 
process that makes trouble. 

If the brandy was left in the decanter it would do little harm, 
but when it is poured from the glass-stoppered vessel into the 
human can't-stop vessel, it invariably does mischief. 

A decanter is a vessel for holding liquors, and a person who 
decants liquors is properly styled a decanter. 

Many drinkers are little else than decanters — receptacles for, 
and decanters of liquors, and a good emblem for many of them 
would be a glass decanter witn a broken nose. 

They " err " easily and are going down hill on a D-canter. 

They shall not drink wine with a song ; strong drink shall be 
bitter to them that drink it. Isa. 24: 9. 



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ia 




A Wine Seller . 



Demi-John. 

The town of Damaghan in Persia, was once famous for its 
glassware, and the French word Dame-Jeanne, from which Demi- 
John is derived, is said to be a corruption therefrom. 

A glass bottle with a large body and a small neck, enclosed in 
wicker work is called a demijohn. 

Every person has noticed that many beer-sellers and dram- 
drinkers completely fill this definition. Let us repeat it again. 
Small neck and head, large body, and surrounded by wicked 
work. That's him! We've all seen him. 

" Demi " means half, and a Half-John would be a strictly 
appropriate title for many keepers of saloons. Who in these 
days has heard of a whole John — a large-hearted, whole-souled 
lover of his race engaging in the sale of liquors, busy transform- 
ing his friends and neighbors and fellow-citizens into Half -Johns, 
half men, and very poor halves at that. 

Such a character is rarer than a Jumbo among elephants, and 
would be a greater wonder. 



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"Still Life." 

Die-Still. 

To distill is to obtain any liquid drop by drop. 

-Quietly and slowly the process goes on and still on, and liquid 
death is Die-stilled. For centuries those who have used intoxi- 
cating liquors have been dieing one by one, and still they die 
and still the work goes on. 

The force is a silent, a still one, but its effects are certain. The 
•" worm that dieth not " is the "worm of the still," and wrapped 
m its treacherous, insidious and slimy coils its victims are gradu- 
ally crushed and destroyed. 

Some people think that the accent of the work Dist-ill should 
jbe on the last syllable. They say it is all and altogether ill, and 
a breeder of ills. 

Ill-health, ill-temper, ill-at-ease and all the illusions of a drunk- 
ard, as well as most of the ill-breeding, illiteracy, illegal and 
illicit actions, illegitimate children, and many ill-starred enter- 
prises are born of or find their origin in Distill ing. 



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Thoroughly Dissipated. 

Dis-sip-ation. 

The prefix "Dis" denotes separation, or parting from. 

To dissipate is to cause to disappear, to drive asunder, to scat- 
ter. It is evident, therefore, that the word fits close to the real 
experiences of those whose dissipated habits have caused money 
and friends to disappear; houses, farms, sheep and oxen to be 
swallowed up, wives and children to be driven away, and the 
fondest and brightest hopes to be scattered and shattered. 

The beginnings of these evils were small and seemingly insigni- 
ficant They began with "treating" and ended in entreat- 
ing. It was only a "sip" — only a taste, "just for once," but 
the end was destitution and death. 

Destroy not him with thy meat (drink) for whom Christ died. 

It u good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing 
whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended or is made weak. 
Rom 14: 15 and 21. 



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"A Bad State to be In." 

Ebriety. 

A state of ebriety or inebriety, is a state of intoxication that 
all dram drinkers are liable sooner or later to live in. 

It is not a desirable state in which to have a residence. All 
the people in it would be better off if tney had never been there. 

The longer one lives therein the less property, the fewer friends 
and the more misery he accumulates. 

Notwithstanding these facts, there is a constant stream of 
emigrants, and agencies to induce people to enter this state are 
established all over the land. 

The people who are in the state do not recommend it, their 
foolish and filthy talk, their ragged and torn clothing, the 
embroglios that they are frequently engaged in, and the mis- 
erable shifts by which they strive to eke out an existence, ought 
to cause emigration to cease, but still the stream flows on. Have 
you started? Turn back. Turn back or you are lost. 



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The Father of (D)evils. 

Evil. 

The word evil fitly defines the results of liquor drinking. All 
the results are "evil and only evil, and that continually." The 
words bad, corrupt, vicious and hurtful are sinonymous with 
the word evil. If E, the first letter, was put at the other end 
of the word, it would only faintly suggest the kind of com- 
panionship, thoughts and doings that inevitably result from the 
use of liquors. 

A habit of drinking leads downwards as surely as a pair of 
stairs. 

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Those who have formed the habit should retrace their steps 
and repent of their evil doings. To be converted is to turn from 
EVIL, to walk the other way. By doing so, by going up away 
from sin, you will LIVE. 



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Too Many Horns. 
F-lip. 

Flip is a mixture of sweetened beer and spirits, warmed with 
an iron. 

To fillip or flip, is to toss. Boys often "flip a copper," and 
possibly the idea of tossing off a glass of flip, gave the beverage 
its name. 

If the word is divided, the initial " F" may stand for full of, 
and if there is any one thing that a man in liquor is full of, it is 
" lip.'' He is never full of liquor without being also " full oi 
lip." 

Sometimes it is manifested in disgusting familiarity, sometimes 
in maudlin sentimentality, sometimes in blatant obscenity, and 
sometimes in fierce invective, but in whatever form it is exhib- 
ited the cause is always apparent. " Liquor has made him so." 

So certain are these results that the word flippant might prop- 
erly have originated from the flip that makes men talkative. 



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In gin. 

Gin. 

The word gin is a contraction of the word Geneva or Genevre, 
and signifies a beverage made from, or flavored with juniper 
berries. 

As the liquor is made from ju-nip-er berries, and as one mean- 
ing of the word gin is a trap or snare, there seems a peculiar 
appropriateness in both the name and its derivation. 

A trap or gin is set for the purpose of catching something, and 
is designed to nip those that get into it. It is universal testimony 
that no snare is so insidious and so certain to entrap and destroy, 
as the habit of using intoxicating drinks. 

A trap is set on purpose to destroy, and all preparations of gin 
are designed to destroy the tissues of the stomach and brain, the 
manhood and self-respect of those who use them. 

Keep me from the snares which they haw laid for me, and the 
gins of the workers of iniquity. Ps. 141 : 9. 



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THE DRINKERS DICTIONARY. 




A Bar-tender. 
G-rogue-ery. 

A place where grog is sold, and where rogues are apt to con- 
gregate may properly be called a g-rogue-ery. 

Grog is a mixture of spirits and water, and the name is derived 
from the fact that it was introduced into the English navy by 
Admiral Vernon. In bad weather he wore a cloak made of gro- 
gram or gros-grain, and from this fact the sailors gave him the 
nickname of "Old Grog," the name grog being subsequently 
applied to the beverage which he first supplied. 

In America, up to about the year 1850, the word grocery as 
commonly used was synonymous with the word grogery, nearly 
all groceries selling liquors, and finding their largest profits in 
so doing. 

The word grocer was originally spelled grosser, and had refer- 
ence to the custom of the merchant, in buying goods by the gross 
or quantity. 

The original mode of spelling was certainly very appropriate at 
the time the sale of liquors was a chief source of revenue. It 
was certainly a gross business — coarse, rough, vulgar and low. 



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Both Halves Worse. 

Half and Half. 

The title of " Half and Half" is given to a mixture composed 
of two sorts of liquors. 

To the drunkard's wife it suggests that her " better half " has 
proved " for worse " instead of " for better." 

It may also signify the many half dollars that have been trans- 
ferred from the pocket of the drinker to the till of the dealer in 
spirits, or possibly it has reference to the half pay that is received 
because of drinking habits, or to the half-hearted manner in 
which a habitual drinker performs his work or treats his family. 

In some cases it is also suggestive of half-witted children, born 
so because their father was a drunkard. 

Half and half, the best half of the man gone, and the other 
going. Who or what shall stop him? 



THE DRINKERS DICTIONARY. 




Not Allowed at Large. 

In-high-bit. 

Many persons who favor the restraint of the liquor traffic do 
not like the term prohibition; possibly they would be better 
pleased with a new word. 

To inhibit means to check, to hold back, to hinder, to repress. 

The word contains aH the elements that exist in the word pro- 
hibition, and therefore any one who favors the repression of the 
liquor traffic may be called an inhibitionist. 

The first syllable of the word, although suggestive of an Inn, 
has no liquor in it, and the word "high" is not used in the 
sense of being elevated through liquor ; it has reference rather to 
the fact which stands out in "high relief" that it is now 
"high noon" in the temperance cause, and the "high eon- 
Btable " of public opinion will soon seize all offenders against 
good morals, and pay particular attention to all persons having 
high wines, or high colored noses in their possession, and 
not one " bit " of leniency will be shown. 

Awake ye drunkards and weep; and howl all ye drinkers of wine, 
bemuse of the new wine for it is cut off from your mouth. 
Joel, 1: 3. 



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The First Intempterance. 



In-temper-ance. 

Any failure to keep the appetites within proper and reasonable 
bounds is an evidence of intemperance. 

The central portion of this word is particularly important; it 
is the spirit, the temper, of anything that determines its quality. 

"Too much temper" — "too highly tempered," not well tem- 
pered, or *' ill-tempered," is a cause of trouble both with tools 
and people. 

Liquor is a prime cause of ill temper, and intoxicating drinks 
will always inflame an evil temper, and make an ordinarily good- 
natured person cross, fretful, peevish. To say that a man is in 
temper, or in liquor, would oftentimes be to express the same fact. 

Liquor drinkers are also tempted to indulge in other sins. 
If the word intemperance was spelled in accordance with its 
origin it would be written in-tempter-ance. Certainly the chief 
tempter is always present where evil spirits gather. 



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THE DKLNKEKS DICTIONARY. 




"There's Death in the Pot " (ation.) 

In-toxicated. 

The word toxicol means poison, and it originally signified the 
poison in which arrows had been prepared for battle, or the 
chase. 

Toxicology is the science that treats of poisons. 

To say that a person is intoxicated, is therefore to say literally 
and in fact, he is poisoned. 

All intoxicated persons are the victims of poison. Deadly 
drugs, like arrows dipped in poison, have sped to their brain and 
vital organs, and they are as really poisoned as they would be if 
arsenic had been swallowed. 

Poison in quantities is one of the invariable ingredients of all 
intoxicating liquors. The manifestation of its evil effects, is only 
a question of how much poisou any particular person can endure. 

The poisoned arrow was prepared to produce death; and 
death here and hereafter is the certain doom of the habitually 
intoxicated. 



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'•A Strike Pending." 

Jug. 

In the language of the Bar Room a Jug is a place that a person 
is liable to get into, if he gets anything out of a Jug. 

A jug is described as a vessel "with a swelling belly, and a 
small mouth. " " 

The description is an apt one when applied to those " whose 
God is their belly. " They have an enormous capacity for guzzling, 
are Falstaffian in their girth, and however small their mouth, it 
is always open. It would be of public as well as private advan- 
tage if the mouth of every drinker, as well as every drinker's 
Jug, could be "corked up." 

There is generally but one handle to a jug, but the temperance 
question is by no means a "jug handled" or one-sided question. 
It touches all sides, the outside and the inside of every man, the 
outside and the inside of his home, and on all sides a decided 
gain would be secured, if everybody would totally abstain from 
the use of intoxicating beverages. 



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"Died Drunk." 

K-ill-ed. 

While under the influence of liquor one man frequently kills 
another, and the daily papers often contain notices of a murder 
in a saloon. 

There is a complete chain of killing in the liquor traffic. The 
grain is killed, deprived of the living principle to make the 
liquor, the man who makes or sells it, kills or deadens his moral 
sensibilities, and while drunk men often kill each other and 
themselves. 

Tlie statement cannot be disproved, that hundreds of persons are 
killed every year as the direct result of the use of intoxicating drinks. 

The finer feelings, the sense of propriety, of honor, of truth- 
fulness, and all religious desires and moral purposes are first 
stupefied, and then killed by the use of intoxicants. 

In the Danish language kil or kill means a stream (the word 
Oatskill is synonymous with Cat's river). What a stream of evil! 
What a stream of killing flows from the great reservoir of 
drink! When, when will it cease! 



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"Lay-ger." 

L-ager. 

The word Lager means a couch or bed. In connection with the 
word Beer it signifies the frame on which the barrels of beer are 
laid, to grow old before being used. A bed is suggestive of sleep, 
and the term is therefore appropriate when applied to a beverage 
that makes one sleepy and sluggish. 

The word Lager also means a lair, and certainly the places 
where lager is sold may be fitly described as " lairs." While under 
the influence of lager, men certainly act more like wild beasts than 
men, and the keeper of a lager or lair saloon may be said to " lie 
in wait " for his customers. 

The word laggard is also clearly related in its origin to the word 
lager. A laggard means a slow person, a loiterer, and it is a fact 
that those who drink beer are the persons who "get left." The 
word should perhaps be pronounced L-ager — for the continued 
use of the liquor will make any one shake like a person with the 
"ager." 



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License. 







'• Non-sense. 

Lie-cents. 

A license is an authorized permit, and many temperance people 
claim that an authorized permit, a purchased right to do evil, is 
a lie-bel on good government. 

They insist that under " high license " people are still liable to 
"get high," and that a low license fee simply gives an oppor- 
tunity for every unfortunate drinker to get low and lower, until 
he lies in the gutter. They say that the very idea of a license to 
do evil, is founded on a lie for the sake of the few cents that 
• may be gained. 

It is a fact that lie-ing and lie-centiousness, are the almost 
inseparable and companion sins of drinking. 

There is an antagonism even in the word license. Lie-sense. 
It is a lie against sense, and the possession of a license cannot 
give the holder a moral right to be engaged in the traffic. 



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Lick hers for Family Use. 

Lick-her. 

The name liquor as applied to all sorts of beverages, is es- 
pecially appropriate, when appropriately spelled. 

To lick is to flog, and the word lick-her is particularly sug- 
gestive, for wife-beating is the common amusement of drunken 
husbands, and is the direct result of the lick-her that he has 
imbibed. 

To lick is to lap, to take in, and a habitual drunkard will take 
in anything that has spirits with it, or do anything to get liquor. 
He will fawn and lick the dust, and play the lick-spittle to get 
a few pennies for drink. 

The word liquor might also be spelled lie- queer. The con- 
tinued use of any and all kinds of intoxicating drinks will make 
a man lie and look queer. 

The flimsy excuses, the prevarications, evasions and falsehoods 
of a drunken man are proverbial. 

That a drunken man looks queer, and acts both queer and 
silly no one will deny. 



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A Bad Lot. 

Mal-t. 

When any grain has been artificially sprouted by steeping, and 
then dried, it is called malt. Whenever the prefix "mal," is 
applied to any word it indicates something evil, the prefix 
being derived from the Latin word mains, bad, 

The word mal-t may therefore be defined as bad-tea; at all 
events it is made into a kind of tea, that produces bad effects on 
those who drink it. 

A large proportion of all unpleasant words have the prefix mal. 

The presence of a drinking man is like mal-aria; it brings bad 
air and mala-dies (sickness) of various kinds; his words are mal- 
apropos (unseasonable) and mal-apert (saucy). He himself is 
generally mal-contented, frequently guilty of mal-feasance (dis- 
honesty); he often becomes a mal-efactor (a criminal), is usually 
mal-adroit (awkward), and then tries to cover up his faults by 
maledictions on others, becoming at last full of mal-ice, mal- 
evolence and malignity. 



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"Ina Tight Place." 

Main Law. 

The State of Maine has achieved world-wide fame, as the first 
btate to enact a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating or malt 

Becoming wearied of efforts at moral suasion, the people 
resolved to accomplish by Maine force, what they could not 
secure otherwise, and there is abundant evidence that all the 
people of the State of Maine have been greatly advantaged bv 
the passage of the " Maine Law." J 

Many persons in other States hope that the old political saying 
will come true: " As goes Maine so goes the Union." 

There are people, however, so "wondrous wise" that they 
never see or believe in progress. 

To all such we commend this verse from the "revised version:" 

There was a man in our town 

More foolish he than wise, 
He drank so much his nose was red, 

And reddened were his eyes. 
And when he saw his eyes were red, 

With all his might and main 
He signed the pledge and helped enforce 

"he liquor law of Maine. 



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"Knows How it is Himself." 

Maudlin. 

The word maudlin is a contraction of, and derived from the 
word Magdalen, that character being usually represented with 
her eyes red with weeping. 

The word has come to signify a condition of drunkenness in 
which the person snivels and weeps, acts stupid and silly, saying 
and doing absurd and ridiculous things, and behaving in a child- 
ish manner, inconsistent with good sense or propriety. 

There are women who get drunk and act in this manner, and 
there are also male magdalens, men full of sin, and especially full 
of sin when full of liquor. 

Mary Magdalen repented and was forgiven, and her namesakes, 
the maudlin drinkers both male and female, may also be restored 
if they will turn to God with full purpose of heart. 

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 
Rom. 10: 13. 



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Taking a Nip. 

Nip. 

To nip is to pinch, to bite, to cut off, to vex. Yes! that will 
be the result if you continue to " take a nip." 

Only persevere, and by and by your desires will pinch you 
harder and harder; you will be pinched in your finances, and 
pinched for food, and pinched for friends. 

The liquor will bite the coats of your stomach, and remove the 
coat from your back. It will "cut off " your acquaintances, and 
cut off your credit, and vex you in many ways. 

Perhaps it is " nip and tuck " with you even now, because of 
your drinking habits. Perhaps you have exhausted your means, 
and the patience of your friends, and mayhap you have reached 
the gate of despair. Wait! do not enter; seek God's help, cast 
yourself upon Him, and if you are in earnest He will help you to 
"nip the evil in the bud," by becoming a total abstainer, and a 
trustful believer. 



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" Beginning, " 
O, Oh. 

The letters O, Oh, indicate an outcry, an expression of grief, 
of astonishment, of pain. 

They represent the pitiful, heartbroken cry of wives and 
children, who have been robbed of their just comforts by the 
drinking habits of those who should provide for, and protect 
them. 

They express the grief, anxiety, sorrow and unrest that are- 
wearing out many lives. Poor patient, pleading souls, pray on. 
God will gather your tears, and they shall turn to hail on the 
heads of those who have offended you. 

Many, many times astonishment is mingled with grief and 
pain, as the fact is first realized that a husband or son, or 
father, has come home drunk. That is sorrow. 



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Old Sinners. 
Old Tom. 

" Old Tom " is the name of a well-known brand of gin. 

The word old indicates age, and age is supposed to add to the 
value of all sorts and kinds of alcoholic liquors — the older the 
better. 

It is not so with articles that are to be used as food. Old 
•oysters, stale vegetables, ancient meats, long-standing pies, anti- 
quated fish and antediluvian beef, are not considered the most 
appetizing. 

In the case of the gin known as Old Tom, the name is fre- 
quently transferred to the customer; from being Mr. Thomas 
Jones, through drinking habits he comes to be known as Tom 
Jones, and then as Jones, and finally as " old Tom," a despised 
and degraded drunkard. 

There is but one thing that can restore him, and that is the 
Gospel. Who shall tell him the good news? 



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"An Original Taunch Bowl." 

Paunch BowL 

The punch bowl, is pre-eminently the fashionable receptacle for 
alcoholic beverages. 

The contents are usually made to seem less harmful, by the 
addition of sugar and slices of lemon, but there are evil spirits in 
the bowl, and the heads of those who partake of its contents, are 
liable to feel as large as the vessel itself. 

A drink of punch often develops a disposition to punch some 
one, and this is perhaps the reason why Punch in the Punch and 
Judy show, is always represented as beating his wife, and def} r ing 
the police. He is invariably portrayed with a big nose, a red 
face, and a stomach as big as a punch bowl. 

It would seem to be more than a mere coincidence that the 
Welsh word bol, to which the word bowl is closely allied, means 
the stomach, and it is quite probable that the real origin of 
the word punch bowl, would be indicated by spelling it paunch 
bowl. 



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A LLPtf s0NS 




"A Bit of Raillery." 

Pro-high-bit-on. 

To prohibit is to interdict, to forbid, to debar, to prevent, to 
hinder. 

Pro, the first syllable of the word, means for, in favor of. In 
favor of what? Well, in favor of something "high." 

All liquor drinkers like to have a "high time," and they cer- 
tainly ought to be willing to extend the same privilege to temper- 
ance people. 

"High" means elevated, raised above, lofty, eminent, exalted 
or sublime, and those who favor prohibition, claim that their 
standard of right occupies the " highest plane, " and that many 
persons of. the " highest character " favor their ideas, that they 
strike the "high note" of opposition to the liquor traffic, and to 
the " high life " and "high living" that countenances and sup- 
ports drinking customs. They insist that they represent the 
"high tide" of reform, and that it is "high time " to enact and 
enforce prohibitory laws. 

The word "bit " suggests the important part of their plan. A 
hit is part of a bridle. " An animal under bit and bridle is under 
control. To bridle is to govern, to check, to curb, to control, to 
master and subdue, and ail these objects are embraced in the aim 
of those who favor prohibition. 



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"Under a Cloud." 

Quarrel-some. 

The word quarrelsome is derived from the word queri, to com- 
plain, and unfortunately the entire human family are too welL 
acquainted with its meaning. 

The outcome of the word is manifested in the brawls of the 
liquor saloon, in the drunken squabbles of the street, and in the 
disgraceful scenes so often enacted where a drunkard lives. 

Drunk and disorderly, is a logical as well as an alliterative sen- 
tence. Angry altercations and awful affrays, form part of the 
history of all places where liquor is sold. 

Quarrel-some, wanting to quarrel with some one is a good 
definition. 

The word querulous has the same origin as the word quarrel, 
and more repining, murmuring and complaining have been caused 
by drink, than by all the dyspepsia the world has ever known. 

When the word MURMUR is read backwards, the intimate 
relation that it sustains to RUM is suggestively indicated. 



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"A Good Rectifier," 
Rectifier. 

In the various definitions of certain words, there are strange 
inconsistencies. 

A rectifier is a person who refines by distillation, and a person 
who corrects, amends, or makes straight, or who removes or 
remedies disorders, errors or abuses, is called a rectifier. 

How many and what gross absurdities are involved in these 
definitions, when applied to a rectifier of spirits, or to the effects 
produced by the spirits that result from his labor. 

A refiner ? Have we not all heard the refined, the exceed- 
ingly refined conversation of the bar room? Have we not observed 
the elegant manners of the drunkard? 

Have we not known for years that a more abundant use of 
spirits would rectify and amend all the ills of the body politic? 
Would not all crookedness vanish, and all errors, indiscretions 
and disorders come to an end if there were more rectifiers? Yes, 
if they were of the right sort. 

Wanted— More good rectifiers 



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A Portage or Carrying Piace. 

Rum. 

There is but little difference between the words <tw™> and ^<^W 
— simply the difference of a dot. 

It only takes a little time for rum to make complete ruin 
of any one. Multitudes have proved this by personal experience. 

A state of ruin is a state of decay. The decay of manhood, of 
fortune, of health, of standing, of character, of reputation are 
often the results of the use of rum. 

Rum is made from the juice of the sugar cane, or from mo- 
lasses. The word rum is said to be derived from the last syl- 
lable of the word sacc7iaru.m, the latin word for sugar. Its 
beginnings are sweet, but the end — the final condition of those 
who use it — is bitter, and one of the complaints that drinkers are 
most subject to is that of rum-atism. 

Those that drink rum are generally ruminant, at least they 
usually chew the cud. 

If they would really ruminate, meditate, on the evils of their 
habits, they would perhaps reform. 



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A Sample Case. 

Sample Room. 

The term sample room, is -frequently used as the sign of a 
drinking saloon. 

There can be no objection to the name; a person has certainly 
the right to so designate his place of business. 

Objection is however made to the kind of samples, that are 
sent out from the saloons. 

It seems an act of injustice to himself that a saloon-keeper 
should so run down his own occupation, as to send out such 
specimens as can be seen almost any day leaving his doors, some- 
times being carted away. To any one who considers the question 
it must be evident that every saloon-keeper is doing a losing 
business ; his customers keep dropping off day by day — some go 
to the grave, and others to the poor-house. 

A sample is -a part of anything, presented as evidence of the 
quality of the whole. We often see a sample of what drink has 
done. What a sight would be afforded by an exhibition of all 
the work of drink. Only Dante's virion of hell could equal it, or 
be compared therewith. 



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"Gas Office— Dry Meeters." 

Say-loon. 

"Much talkee, talkee," is the way a Chinaman described the 
noise of a saloon, and he was not far astray. 

More cheap talk can be heard in a liquor saloon in a given 
length of time, than in any other place of meeting. 

A great many " they says" originate over the froth in a beer 
mug. Bits of gossip and slander, lying and swearing are often 
heard between the clink of the beer glasses, and "shut your 
mouth " is one of the common and apparently necessary sayings 
in the polite (?) society of the "beer halle." 

The last half of the word is particularly significant. A "loon," 
as defined by Webster, is a stupid man, a poor, needy, idle, lazy 
fellow, a rogue, a rascal. 

It is a truth, "which nobody can deny," that the definition 
aptly describes the character of the habitues of an ordinary 
drinking saloon, and more of the kind of persons named can be 
found in the saloons, than in " all other places out of jail." 



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"God Sees Behind All Screens." 

Screen. 

It would probably be a safe proposition to offer to pay the tax 
or license, of any saloon keeper, in any part of the county, who 
would do away with all curtains, shutters and screens, and allow 
the public to see all the patrons of and doings in his saloon. 

The reason for a screen is apparent. To screen is to conceal, 
to hide ; a screen shelters or conceals from view. We often hear 
of " efforts to screen evil-doers." 

The screen in a liquor saloon not only conceals the inmates, 
but it hides the public from those that are within. 

The inmates do not see, or at least do not appreciate, the virtue, 
honor and peace, the knowledge and favor of God, that are 
enjoyed by so many on the outside. 

Those on the inside are really on the wrong side of the screen. 

A screen is used to separate the coarse from the finer, and cer- 
tainly much that is coarse and vulgar, and unrefined, is to be 
found behind the screen of a saloon. 



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Champagne. 



Real Pain. 



Shame Pain. 

The wine grown in the province of Champagne in France, bears 
the name of the province. 

Our division of the word, indicates the natural results of the 
use of the beverage. 

Liquor of some sort is the invariable accompaniment of a house 
of shame. 

Shame is the result of guilt, or dishonor or disgrace. To 
shame a person is to mock at him. 

Who has not heard a sneer, or seen the finger of scorn pointed 
at a man who had shamed his manhood through drink. 

After shame comes " pain." The realization of their condition, 
the knowledge that, while under the influence of liquor, things 
have been done or* words said, that were foolish or wicked, have 
caused many painful reflections. 

The word pain has the same origin as the word penalty, and 
thus shame and pain are closely related to the words guilt and 
penalty, and all drinkers have one and must pay the other. 



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Fire Kindling. 
Sigh-der. 

The drink made from the juice of apples is thought by many 
to bear the same relation to other drinks, that sighing does to 
weeping — the one, in their opinion, merely precedes the other. 

Happy is the person whose sighing never reaches the stage of 
weeping, and* fortunate the individual whose drinking of cider, 
does not lead to the use of stronger liquids. 

To sigh is to grieve, to mourn, to lament. A sigh indicates 
fear, anxiety or unrest. The use of intoxicating liquors has 
doubtless been the occasion of more sighs and more weeping, than 
have originated in all other evil doings; the beginnings may be 
as gentle as a zephyr, but the ending will be like a cyclone or 
simoon. A habit of drinking will bring ail good desires, and a 
man himself to naught. 

For sigh-der (cider) he sighed 
And a sigh-fer (cipher) he died. 



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' Slain with a Sling. ' 



Sling. 

Among the various kinds of slings there are several for throw- 
ing stones. The difference between those kinds, and the kind 
made from water and spirits, consists in the fact that one throws 
what is placed in it, and the other whatever it is placed in. 

A hanging bandage is also called a sling, and is often needed 
by those who have had an arm or leg broken in a drunken quarrel. 

To sling is to hurl, to throw, to cast. Many a man has been 
hurled from a position of trust and influence because of the 
slings he has swallowed, and the slang he has uttered; and 
often and again an employee has lost a situation through his 
patronage of " beer slingers." 

Many a giant since the time of Goliath has been slain with a 
sling, and numbers of families have been slung out of home and 
thrown upon the charity of the world because the husband and 
father drank sling. 



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"A Re-fine-ery." 

S-pirates. 

A spirit is an apparition, a spectre, a ghost. To see such spirits 
in abundance, and especially those known as ''blue devils," 
"snakes" and "demons," one only needs to be introduced to 
their progenitors, Mr. ' 'Proof Spirits" and Mrs. "Spirits of Wine." 
Once in their company you will soon form the acquaintance of 
"their sisters, their cousins and their aunts," and instead of 
being " high spirited " you will become "low spirited," tremu- 
lous and. insane. 

Alcoholic spirits are always thievish, and the word might, with 
propriety, be spelled s-pirates. A pirate is a freebooter, a plun- 
derer, a robber. He robs without remorse, and kills without 
compunction. He hoists the black flag and considers only him- 
self. Who shall say that alcohol does not the same, or worse? 
It steals both brains and means, and what is more, it has robbed 
many a man of his "good name." 

You can always tell when this pirate is near; an as-pirate indi- 
cates that a letter is to be pronounced with a strong emission 
of breath ; when a strong breath is perceived then beware. 



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Help the Struggling. 

Stick. 

A glass of soda with "a stick in it" is one of the ways in 
which liquor is imbibed. The '' stick " in the glass is not as some 
pretend a " composing stick." It does not steady a man's nerves, 
nor give him anything to lean upon; on the contrary, it inclines 
him towards a lamp post. 

The usefulness of liquor even in medicine, is only temporary, 
and in any case a glass of soda with " a stick in it," is only one 
"poor stick " in the hands of another, and eventually it will beat 
the user. 

To " stick " is to pierce. The stick in the soda will pierce the 
drinker " with many sorrows." To "stick" is to fasten; and 
the use of liquor as a beverage will soon so fasten itself upon any 
person, that they will stick fast in the mire of intemperance, 
before they dream of danger. 

Stick a pin here. Stop, sign the pledge and stick to it. 



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A Dangerous Anesthetic. 
Still. 

A still is an apparatus for distilling. 

In distilling the grain is destroyed, or killed in order to obtain 
the spirits. 

The idea of death seems to inhere in the word still, in whatever 
connection it appears; it is frequently used to express silence or 
quiet, and we often hear the expression "as still as death," and 
alcoholic and malt liquors have been fitly called "distilled death." 

To still is to stop, to silence, to put to sleep, and drinking will 
silence and quiet conscience, and put all sense of honor and pro- 
priety to sleep. 

It is noticeable that while other business men are asleep, and 
stores and shops and factories are still and quiet, many saloons 
are wide open and well lighted, with many patrons. This is 
because the keeper of the saloon still desires to fill his till with 
gains, and so he keeps open while other "factories" are still. 
Why not, at least, make him keep the eight hour law? 



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Remarkable Ears and Mouth. 

Sw-ear-ing. 

The habit of profanity, the irreverent use of the name of God, 
is specially prevalent in the region of a liquor shop. 

It seems strange that men who would not permit such free use 
of the name of any friend, or allow the name of a sister, wife or 
mother to be dragged into ail manner of conversation, will still 
inject the Holy name of God into conversation upon any and 
every theme. 

It is a great annoyance and a sorrow to many " ears polite." 

The poet Cowper said : 

"It chills 1x13- blood to hear the blest Supreme 
Rudely appealed to, on each trifling theme; 
Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise. 
To swear is neither brave, polite nor wise. 
You would not swear upon a bed of death, 
Reflect, your Maker now may stop your breath." 

Because of swearing the land mourneth. Isa. 23:10. 



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" As One Grows Fat the Other Grows Lean." 

Tap-Room. 

To tap is to draw off, or draw out, and it is the drawing of liquor 
from the casks that gives significance to the name of tap-room. 

The frequenting of a tap-room is certain to tap a man's pocket, 
and also his moral' character. Those who visit such places are 
drawn off, drawn away from the influences of home, drawn into 
evil associations, and in the way of, in danger of being drawn 
into other depths of sin. 

A tap is a gentle blow. This is a method of warfare that all 
temperance workers should sometimes use. Words that are 
gentle and yet forceful will often attract attention when fierce 
invective fails. 

" The heart is as a deep well, and if you drop a kind word 
into it, the water will often plash into the eyes." 

To draw is to attract ; try and attract from the tap-room to the 
Jiome and church. 



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Sowing Tares. 

Tear. 

"On a tear." How frequently these words are heard, and 
how appropriate they are. 

To tear is to lacerate, to separate by violence, to rend, to 
shatter and to rave. 

When a man goes "on a tear" he lacerates the feelings of 
his family and friends, his actions become violent, and in spirit 
he separates from among men, is frequently separated from his 
wife, and becomes for the time a beast. He often shatters any 
confidence that has been placed in his honor, and in his delirium 
he rages and raves against his best and warmest friends. 

Such cases are familiar to many persons, and while a man is 
on a tear, his family are sad and tearful, and all who think of 
him are constrained to drop a silent tear. 






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Delivered. 

T-total-err. 

Many persons drink a kind of tea that certainly looks suspi- 
cious, but there is nothing suspicious in the kind of "T" which 
is here alluded to. 

This kind is honest, reliable and safe, and it will do no one 
any possible harm, and has been the beginning of good to many 
thousands. 

This "Tee" is simply a repetition of the first letter of the 
word "total," and the word "total " settles fully and completely, 
for those who adopt it, the whole question of the use of liquor. 

Tee-total-errs are never in danger. They at least will never 
u err j? through indulging in the use of liquors. 

A tee-total-err is absolutely certain to mal^e no mistake by getting 
on an accidental drunk. The sum total of their life will be without 
any errors of that kind. If a man has been erratic on the ques- 
tion of drinking, when he becomes a tee-total-err he will become 
" regular," and will cease to be either " irregular" or " defective." 



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M A Tight Squeeze." 

Tight. 

The word tight is one of those words that often indicate their 
opposite. 

A man is said to be tight, when as a matter of fact he has 
become loose in his habits and loose in his principles, and the 
oftener he gets tight, the looser he becomes. A vessel is said to 
be "water tight" when no water can get into it, and in this- 
sense many drinkers are "water tight;" they are liable, how- 
ever, to get into a " tight place," where they cannot get loose. 

An article is said to be tight when it is firmly held, and many 
moderate drinkers are tightly held to their cups. 

The money market is said to be "tight," when money is not 
plenty and readily loaned. This kind of tightness is sure to be 
experienced by those who get tight. 

Beware of the vice of drunkenness, if once in its grip it will 
hold you tight. 

To some who read these lines it may even now be a " tight 
squeeze " to reform. 

If so, try, struggle, strive and pray. 



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Heavy Burdens. 
Tip-Sigh. 

Wh eQ a ba r ' e/ of liqu 0r $ s *o rie^rV e m p ty that ** h as 
*° be ttpP^d u p to g et the conte^s, a Up-Si9h is gi v en by the °wn e r. T/*e 
Up f 'An Y th[ n g is the e x t r° m ity, a nd a t i^ S y man is exa^ly at 
f e x tremit y . B u t as "nws Jrgi* i s God's Pp or t UII &tj," 
he may s ^i] L i^ saved, \f h e caU b e \e d to ^al f ze h^ d gger 
a^ d ^i s ne ed . 

H E is at the e xtre mit y- Don't push but pull, p* r ri a PS he 
c a n be d r wn back to S a f e*y 1 1 God, | fce ad of gQ jng QyQT in t 

p^^tion. 



poor ma., See h|m ^ c?je ^ 



one side, now ou 



the other, 



p^hapS he has been t'K-ng by drinking " T ip pe r," a kind 
of English ale made by and named after Thomas Tipper; at all 
events he is ^PV, and is liable to be gathered in by a " Tip- 
staff/' and then there will be sighs and weeping. 



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A Toper 

Top-er. 

The word toper is derived from the word tope, to top off, 
signifying the emptying of a glass at a single draught. 

It goes without saying that top off is a very appropriate desig- 
nation for one who drinks to excess. Such a person is evidently 
" a little off," his " top " is certainly " off," and it may be truth- 
fully said that he has " lost his head." 

His "top-knot" is usually in disorder, and that he is "top 
heavy M is equalty evident. In whatever way you look at it the 
word top-er is appropriate, for when there is liquor in a man, 
his head and legs seem to be spinning round and round, and he is 
as dizzy as a top. 

By and by such a person will come to a full stop, and like a 
top will lie still and dead, but unlike a top he cannot be again 
wound up nor set agoing. 

All topers are on the road to-perdition. 



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An Unsteady Load. 

Unsteady. 

The prefix "un" indicates the absence of qualities represented 
by a word without the prefix. 

"Un" is therefore a negative prefix with a very positive mean- 
ing, whether prefixed to the word steady or to any other word. 

An unsteady man is an accurate description of a drunken man. 
His head, legs, arms and body are unsteady. 

Unless he reforms he is "fixed" and prefixed, both for this 
world and the next. 

His presence is unwelcome and uncongenial; his body un- 
healthy, unwholesome and unsightly; his appetites unbridled 
and uncontrolled; his habits unthrifty and unworthy; his temper 
unmanageable and unamiable; his conduct unseemly and unbear- 
able; his actions unchaste and unaccountable; his manners 
uncivil, uncourteous and undignified; his words unjust, unkind 
and unclean; his character unruly and unreasonable; his spirit 
undevout, unbelieving and unconverted; his mind unbalanced, 
his life unhappy, the entire man undone, and his soul 

Unsaved. 



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"Pinching Times.' 



Vice. 



A vice is an instrument used to gripe something, to hold it 
fast. 

To gripe is to catch, to clutch, to seize, to pinch, to distress. 

The vice of drunkenness has its gripe on many a man, and 
many a home. Over and over again some unfortunate who has 
been caught in the snare of drink, is alternately in the clutches of 
the saloon-keeper, or the gripe of the pawnbroker. He is pinched 
and distressed by their exactions, feels daily the pangs of poverty, 
and learns by bitter experience the evils of the vice of drunken- 
ness. His own appetite and his neighbor's avarice, are always 
ready to give him another pinch. 

A vice is a defect, a blemish, an immorality. If a person is 
given to drinking, his character and his clothes soon give evi- 
dence of defects and blemishes, and advertise the vices he is guilty 
of. A vice has jaws, and in these it can crush whatever comes 
between. 

The vice of drunkenness has this same power, and in its awful 
jaws many hearts have been crushed and broken. 



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D 
VI L EVIL. 

Tke Saloon Trinity. 

Vile. 

The word vile indicates something impure, depraved, low and 
vulgar, and the atmosphere of a saloon reeks with smells, words 
and actions that justify all of the definitions given. 

The stale smell of a beer-drinker's breath is one of the most 
disgusting of all unpleasant odors. Much of the language of the 
saloon is equally impure, and the attitudes of a drunken man are 
usually uncouth, vulgar, disgusting. 

Transpose "e," the last letter of the word, to the beginning 
and you have the word evil. Prefix the letter "d" and you 
have the name of the presiding deity — the chief evil spirit that 
presides over all the spirits, both liquid and human, that abide in 
the saloon. If you wish to flee from the evil one, flee from the 
saloon. Do not get caught in his wiles. "Resist the" vile, 
evil " Devil, and he will flee from you." 



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Not Yet Caught. 

Whis-key. 

The word whiskey is a corruption of the Irish word usque- 
baugh, meaning (strange inconsistency) " water of life"; "fire of 
death " would be a much more appropriate term. Abundant 
medical evidence exists that whiskey burns the stomach and brain, 
and it is a well-established fact, that more deaths are caused by 
drunkenness than by the small-pox. 

The name and the liquor both originated in Ire-land, and it is 
natural that the liquor should make the users cross and angry. 

This key has fastened more and heavier chains on the Irish 
people, than all the "absenteeism" of which they complain. 
Boycott the whis-key and half of their troubles would cease, and 
the other half would be much more easily endured. Whis-key 
is the key that keeps most men in jail, and it unlocks fountains 
of tears in thousands of otherwise happy homes. 



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Filled with Those Who Get " Full." 

Uuine. 

Wine is the juice of the vine or grape, and in some languages 
the words vine and wine are interchangeable. 

" Wine is a mocker," an impostor, a scoffer. One who deceives 
or ridicules is also styled a mocker. 

Many wines are described as sweet, but the effects produced by 
their use, and the companionships indulged in while under their 
influence, are oftentimes the opposite of sweet. If the word 
WINE had an initial " S " before it the appropriate companions 
of many drinkers would be partially indicated. 

Wine is an impostor, palming itself off as a friend when it 
steals away one's brains. Wine promises pleasure, but deceives 
by concealing the headaches, the reproaches, the dishonors that 
follow its use. It ridicules sobriety and virtue, and makes those 
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Wet Weather. 

Xtra-Dry. 

Some brands of champagne, that are particularly free from 
either sweetness or acidity, are designated as extra dry. 

The Bible says that no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of 
heaven. That ''other place," where drunkards go, is repre- 
sented as so dry that Dives could not obtain a drop of w T ater 
to cool his parched tongue. 

The sign XX means that the ale, or beer, or whiskey is the 
best, that it is doubly strong, and will down the strongest and 
the bravest and the best that dare to use it. 

One of the meanings that should attach to the XX (two 
crosses), is that the liquor will make those who drink it twice 
as cross and disagreeable as they are naturally. In the "good 
time coming," it is expected that the liquor traffic will be all 
dried up. O blessed drought, draw near. 



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A Yeast Manufacturer. 

Yeast. 

The froth or scum that rises to the top when beer is undergoing 
the process of fermentation or decay is called yeast. 

It represents most fittingly the value of the thoughts that are 
uppermost in the minds of habitual and excessive users of beer. 

Empty wit, vaporing eloquence, absurd reasonings and stale 
smells can be perceived in any saloon. 

The scum of any liquid is usually vile and worthless, and the 
scum and offscouring among the population of all large cities 
are manufactured most largely by, and kept in their dreadful 
condition through, intoxicating drinks. 

In view of these facts, to whom, and where shall we turn for 
deliverance? 

Let us turn to the east, to Him whose star was seen in the 
east, and through repentance and faith we shall be able to say: 

As far as the east is from the wes% so far hath Tie removed our 
transgressions from us. Ps. 103 :12. 



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Evolution. 

Zany, 

A zany is one who in gesture or posture, assumes or acts the 
part of a clown, a buffoon or a fool. 

Any one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to 
the dictates of wisdom, is said to be a zany. 

Under these definitions, who so completely fills the position of 
a zany as a drunken man? He not only personates, but actually 
transforms himself into a buffoon, and his conduct is in every 
way consistent with the character, and opposed to reason, wis- 
dom, judgment. 

Of course he did not intend to become a drunkard; he thought 
he could always drink with moderation. 

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit ? there is more hope of a 
fool than of him. Prov, 26 : 12. 



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And so the tale runs on, and many volumes could not portray 
all the evils resulting from the use of intoxicating drinks. 



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